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Nigel Powell

I write about AI for a living — here's how to become a true power user

Ideogram generated image of a robot labeling a painting which is also AI generated.

If you’re like most people, you’ll be consuming your weekly AI fix in dribs and drabs. But crucially most of you will be doing this simply by firing up the official web version of ChatGPT or Claude and querying the nice friendly text box on the screen. Which is fine. But you could be getting so much more out of the experience.

It’s rather like accessing the Internet by using Google search. My aunt, and several million — or even billion — other people, still believe that the only way to access the internet is to search in the Google homepage search box. For some reason which escapes me, they have never associated the words web browser with the internet, or indeed the world wide web which sits on top of it. Strange but let's blame marketing.

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